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beyond it ; postraedial line slight, defined by greyish on outer side, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then oblique, minutely waved, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 greyish, defined on inner side by blackish suffusion, slightly angled 

 outwards below vein 7 and excurved at middle; a fine black 

 terminal line with grey striae on inner side. Hind wing greyish 

 suffused with fuscous brown, somewhat paler at base : cilia with 

 ochreous line at base followed by a fuscous line and white tips : 

 the underside whitish tinged with brown, the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and diffused dark apical patch 

 extending to discal fold. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the antemedial area concolorous. 



Hah. Qoteenslakd, Horeton Bay (Diggles), 1 6 type, Brisbane 

 (Turner), 1 o, 2 $; N. S. Wales (Mathew), 1 <$ . 7^.20-30 

 millim. 



*40S2. Ariathisa adelopa. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 23.) 



Caradrina adelopa, Lower, ined. 



S . Head and thorax fuscous mixed with grey ; palpi, vertex of 

 head, and antenna? rufous ; pectus ochreous white ; legs ochreous 

 and fuscous, the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen fuscous and 

 grey. Fore wing fuscous grey thickly irrorated with black, the 

 terminal area fuscous ; subbasal line represented by a black point 

 on costa ; antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved, angled 

 outwards at submedian fold and with black point at costa; reni- 

 form an oblique blackish lunule with small rufous lunule on its 

 outer edge, placed on the indistinct waved medial line which is 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell ; postmedial line in- 

 distinct, waved, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at 

 discal fold and more strongly below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 indistinct, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle; a terminal series of slight stria?. Hind wing dark fuscous; 

 underside grey, the costal area irrorated with black, a small black 

 discoidal lunule, the terminal area blackish, deeper towards apex. 



Abdomen with large exsertible lateral tufts from base above the 

 stigmata. 



Hub. Victoria, Gisborne (Lyell), in Coll. Turner. Exp, 42 

 millim. 



*4033. Ariathisa nycteris. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 24.) 



Caradrina nycteris, Turner, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxxii. p. 60 (1908). 



2 . Head and thorax brownish grey suffused with fuscous; palpi 

 blackish, pale at tips ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen 

 grey strongly mixed with brown. Fore wing grey almost wholly 

 suffused with fuscous brown ; a black point at base ; subbasal line 

 black defined by grey on outer side, waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double filled in with grey, oblique, dentate ; 

 claviform absent : orbicular represented by a white point defined 



